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Wall Street gives money to both [Democrats and Republicans] because they want to be on the good side of whoever becomes president .

Jamie Dimon

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Jamie Dimon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 13
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As countries get wealthier - all of them, together - you're going to have financial assets. That is a good thing. You could argue the assets were traded too much, or that they're too highly valued, or too leveraged.
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Finance went from being a small business, effectively, to being a big business. In part, that's the growth of the world's wealth. That's called savings.
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Most CEOs are patriotic and most CEOs can see the problems in front of them, and they want to do something about it. We don't always agree about the ways and means, but the objective? We're totally together.
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The goal of what Japan's central bank is doing is to create growth. If it actually creates growth, in the long run, it will lead to appreciation.
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We do all that [ represent companies], because we have a lot of research in Japanese companies, and that research educates investors around the world. It allows us to sell stocks and bonds in Japanese companies.
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People always say to me, What if it doesn't work? If it doesn't work, we redouble our effort. We're not going to cry like a bunch of babies. We're going to redouble our effort.
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That's probably good, all things being equal, for emerging markets, not bad, even though it may not be great for all their currencies.
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On Wall Street, there is no Wall Street there are individuals.
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When the government gets involved in pricing, I don't think it's the right way to look at a business.
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I hate the word universal, because I don't know exactly what it means. The question is, does it work for the client? Travelers was a diversified, financial conglomerate that did very well. The businesses had nothing to do with each other.
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If business doesn't thrive, it hurts America. We need improved relations, more collaboration, more thought and more consistency as we go about trying to make sure we have the best country in the world. Not scapegoating and finger-pointing.
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My father and grandfather were stockbrokers, and they would actually take stock certificates from a vault, give it to a runner, and send it to another vault. Then somebody said, Let's digitize it and have one vault. Now the DTCC clears and settles almost everything, and the cost of doing a trade is a tenth of what it was before.
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We take smaller companies and middle-sized companies, all around the world, and we do currency exchange for them we raise bonds and equities for them and we do inventory finance, trade finance, and custody of assets.
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Dodd-Frank is 2,000 pages long. It covers thousands of rules, regulations, interpretations and things like that.
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The third arrow (of structural reform) is critically important. Japan has some of the best companies in the world, and if you look at their technology, their capability, it's extraordinary.
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I know the President [Barack Obama]. I like him and respect him. That does not mean I agree with all of our government's policies, whether they come from Democrats or Republicans.
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Don't do anything stupd. And don't waste money. Let everybody else waste money and do stupid things then we'll buy them.
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More people are working, lending is up and savings are up. These are all positive signs for a strengthening economy.
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I do want the tax system to be efficient and be conducive to growth, which it is not.
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